September 2024 Members' Meeting

September 2024 Members' Meeting

Most Educated, Least Productive:
Why We’re Struggling and How We Change

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) Members’ Meeting, hosted by BHER member TELUS at their Toronto office.

We purposely facilitated a conversation about post-secondary education’s financial sustainability crisis, its role in producing the talent Canada needs, and industry’s productivity and growth crisis. Why? Because they aren’t separate problems for post-secondary or industry to solve on their own.

Please find a summary of key takeaways from our meeting in the link below, and some of the solutions and actions we’re committed to. As the only organization in Canada that brings together leaders from businesses and post-secondary institutions, BHER and our members are uniquely positioned to drive change.

The Honourable Peter Bethlenfalvy Ontario’s Minister of Finance	Sophie D’Amours Rectrice, Université Laval	Frances Donald Chief Economist, RBC	Darren Entwistle Chief Executive Officer, TELUS
Neil Fassina President, Okanagan College	Gervan Fearon President, George Brown College	Goldy Hyder President and Chief Executive Officer, Business Council of Canada	Rhonda Lenton President and Vice Chancellor, York University
Sandy McIntosh Executive Vice-President, People & Culture and Chief Human Resources Officer, TELUS	Dave McKay Chief Executive Officer, RBC	Brian Rosenberg President Emeritus, Macalester College and Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Author of Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education	Heather Scoffield Senior Vice-President, Business Council of Canada
	John Stackhouse Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, RBC	Val Walker Chief Executive Officer, Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER)

September 2024 Members' Meeting

September 2024 Members' Meeting

Thank you to our speakers for leading the conversation